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Bootstrapping from London to $10 Million: Alexandre Wentzo, CEO of Casewise (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Can you tell the story of how the company was founded and develop the story fully? Alexandre Wentzo: When I joined them in the UK, they were working in Central London in a small flat. They were keen on the French market at that time because the economy was a bit better than
Bootstrapping from London to $10 Million: Alexandre Wentzo, CEO of Casewise (Part 1)
Alex tells the story of a bootstrapped company from London that has gone all the way to $10 million in just over 10 years and is now looking to scale further, perhaps with outside capital. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Tell us where you’re from, where you were born, raised,
Bootstrapping Lessons: FairWarning CEO Kurt Long (Part 1)
Kurt has tried different permutations and combinations of bootstrapping, several of them successfully. Listen to his perspective on each of those. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Kurt Long: I was raised in Clearwater, Florida. I grew up in
Concept Financing from Andreessen Horowitz: Andrew Rubin, CEO of Illumio (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What are the nuggets of what you were going to do differently and how you were going to do them differently? Andrew Rubin: Very simply put, our industry has been dominated by hardware- and network-based solutions for over 20 years. It doesn’t mean that it’s wrong. It’s just that it was the singular approach. Our
Concept Financing from Andreessen Horowitz: Andrew Rubin, CEO of Illumio (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: When you started to get this thing off the ground, anecdotally and structurally, what were the next steps? Andrew Rubin: PJ and I probably first had to figure out whether or not we like each other enough to spend more time together. I know that sounds silly now in hindsight, but when you
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How has your revenue ramped from the 2007 time frame to 2015? Where are you now? Chris Grandi: We’re growing over 50% per year. In year one, we started our revenue with less than a million dollars. You grow a 100% when your revenue is smaller. Our revenue is significantly bigger now but we’re
Concept Financing from Andreessen Horowitz: Andrew Rubin, CEO of Illumio (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What did you do in the Valley? Andrew Rubin: In every sense of the word, people talk about luck, timing, and fate being not everything, but an important part of the story. Sramana Mitra: It’s a very big thing. Andrew Rubin: It’s an incredibly important part of the story in my case. While
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Process: Todd Dunlop, CEO of RingPartner (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You seem to be enjoying the process of starting something, figuring a niche, and getting it to a certain amount of revenue. The first one you scaled to $50 million in revenue, which was a substantial amount of revenue. It sounds like you like to figure it out and then sell the company. Is